This year, we are proud to work with members of our inaugural Confluence Program as well as members of our flagship multi-year grant program to secure permanent protection of these threatened natural spaces.
Priority Campaigns
Each year, The Conservation Alliance and its members select priority campaigns. These conservation opportunities are urgent, vital, and require national attention. Our priority campaigns may address competing demands for natural resources, focus on adapting to climate change, or recognize the right of indigenous communities to name a few.
2022 Priority Campaigns
Boundary Waters – Minnesota
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in NE Minnesota is the most visited wilderness area in the US and is part of a 4.3-million-acre system of wild public lands that stretches to Canada. Multiple tribes depend on it for hunting and gathering and the region provides critical habitat for a number of species. Despite being a wilderness area, mining has been proposed in the region. Long-term permanent protection at the state and federal level is required.
Bristol Bay – Alaska
Bristol Bay, Alaska is home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run and plays a central role in the cultural and spiritual identity of the Yup’ik, Dena’ina, and Alutiiq peoples who depend on salmon. Bristol Bay provides over 15,000 jobs and generates $2.2 billion annually from the commercial fishery but is threatened by a proposed mine. Permanent protection for Bristol Bay is needed to stop this mine.
Castner Range – Texas
The Castner Range is a mountainous 7,000 acres located between city neighborhoods and Franklin Mountains State Park in the majority Latinx community of El Paso, Texas. Designating this area a national monument would protect its historical and ecological value while providing improved access and outdoor opportunities for local communities.
Dolores River – Colorado
The Dolores River begins high in the San Juan Mountains of SW Colorado and flows 230 miles until it joins the Colorado River in Utah’s red rock desert near Moab. We are supporting a bill to designate a 75,000-acre National Conservation Area that would protect more than 70 miles of the Dolores River and create a new roadless area.
Related News
112 Businesses Join Together to Call for Boundary Waters Protections
This morning, we joined forces with priority campaign grantee Save the Boundary Waters and the Boundary Waters Business Coalition to deliver a letter to congressional offices from both parties to send a clear message to Congress: The Boundary Waters deserves immediate and long-term protection.
Priority Campaign Guest Blog: Dolores River
The Dolores River emerges from the dramatic peaks of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado – flowing 241 miles west and then north before joining the Colorado River near Moab, Utah.
Priority Campaign Guest Blog: Bristol Bay
Bristol Bay is the crown jewel of salmon fisheries. In a time of global climate change, threatened species and landscapes, and declining salmon populations across the Pacific Northwest and into Alaska, no place can boast the ecological abundance of Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Priority Campaign Guest Blog: Boundary Waters
In 2022 Let’s Protect the Boundary Waters Wilderness Forever. America’s most popular and accessible Wilderness could gain permanent protection against risky copper mining by the end of this year.
